“If I Walked on my Own at Night I Stuck to Well Lit Areas.” Gendered spaces and urban transport in 20th century Britain

In this paper, I examine the interrelation between transport, gender and space to explain eventual gender inequalities we are confronted with at the end of the twentieth century, firstly to shed light on the experience of women travelling on public transport; secondly to examine moving around in cities in a wider sense by focussing on walking; and thirdly to seek to explain the change of urban structures that determine transport by analysing traffic planning. Eventually these three aspects of gendered transport in cities reveal what different spaces and places women used, experienced and how such a specific experience promoted the construction of gendered social and economic identities.